Asia’s emerging-market currencies are sliding as the coronavirus outbreak threatens to slow the region’s economy and drives outflows into the dollar.
President Trump’s most recent budget will make a ‘big dent’ in deficit spending, says Russell Vought, the White House’s Office of Management and...
Trump has been a big spender across the board. His new budget promises cuts, but it remains to be seen whether he really means it or whether his budget is just an accounting exercise.
At present on world financial markets, monetary policy is not combating risk but adding to it. Central banks have become major creators of possible economic shocks.
What exactly is going on? There is no one single factor behind the decline, but rather an overwhelming combination of circumstances that is pushing the currency lower.
12 month change in Fed liquidity suggests this might be largest boost in over 50 years
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A senior US Federal Reserve official said on Monday that the central bank's current monetary policy should help support the US economic expansion, which is now in its 11th year.
There have probably never been as many characteristics of a top as we are experiencing today
- The coronavirus outbreak is hitting a peak in China this month and may be over by April, the government’s senior medical adviser said on Tuesday, in the latest assessment of an epidemic that has rattled the world.
As of Monday night, the government said a total of 42,638 cases have been confirmed and 1,016 people have died in the country.
New findings suggest the number of "infected & contagious yet unaware" cases walking around could be substantially larger than feared.
The Royal Mint has produced a £5,000 coin that weighs a hefty five kilos and is reportedly worth a staggering £300,000.
Having been a store of value since ancient times, it’s rather strange to think that gold would need to assert itself as an asset class.
A CNBC survey of 11 forecasters over the weekend finds first quarter GDP estimates averaging just 1.2%, down nearly a point from the fourth quarter.
Mike and Jeff continue their discussion of Jeff's recent presentation in Vancouver. In part II of the Coming Silver Price Shock, Jeff shows why he thinks the silver price is vulnerable to a shock. Check out just how small the silver market is in his fun example, along with what happened the last time one fund moved into this tiny sector.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell heads to Capitol Hill on Tuesday at a touchy juncture.
Reductions in the U.S. corporate-tax rate in 2018 didn’t result in much more investment, said former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, who is concerned about the economy running into “financial trouble.”
Gold futures climb on Monday to tally a fourth consecutive gain as investors fret about the economic impact on China of the outbreak of the Wuhan virus.
This is the highest concentration since the dotcom bubble peak of 2000.
Department of Justice charges four members of China’s PLA. “We have the capability to remove the Internet’s cloak of anonymity.” But how far will it go?